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5151 Hi! I am a queer grad student who just moved to Glasgow, Scotland. Sharing Document It Yourself is about my quest to find archives of local This zine is free and cannot be sold or used for commercial queer narratives, with the goal of making them more interactive and purposes, but you can make as many copies as you want, accessible to the public. This zine explores different archives and share it, or give it away! queer initiatives in town, gives you a few tips if you are new to archival research or just curious about it, shows you samples of documents I found and illustrated, and helps you retrace them if you Go to documentityourselfzine.wordpress.com to find: want to learn more. • a PDF formatted for reading online/downloading The physical sites I visited are located in Glasgow (and one in Edinburgh), but you don’t have to live here in order to enjoy reading • a PDF formatted for printing this zine. • printing and binding instructions • an audiozine with the same content Contact Names have been redacted out of personal documents to Send questions/comments at [email protected] protect people’s privacy. For the purpose of a simple layout, I only put reference numbers Thanks for reading! and authors’ names on each page. All the complete sources are at the end of this zine. Lots of people have given me permission to reproduce their archival documents, so please do have a look at the ✨⚡ reference list on p.4. 2 5151 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………..4 Mitchell Library – Glasgow Life Archive…………5 More, more, more Queering language……………….5 Links Glasgow Women’s Library – Zine, LGBTQ and Lesbian Archive……………………………8 Care, part 1…………………………………………………..….8 www.lgbtarchive.uk Queering sources……………………………………………10 National Library of Scotland – www.queerarchivesinstitute.org Moving Image Archive…………….17 Care, part 2……………………………..17 www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net Bildwechsel Glasgow………………………19 Queering access……………………………19 www.thewhoresofyore.com OurStory Scotland…………………….22 www.qzap.org/ Do it yourself………………………………22 Queering methods………………………….23 Life episodes, illustrated………………….…23 www.autostraddle.com/50-zines-by-queer-people- of-color-184692/ Now what?........................................39 Archive visit checklist……………..39 Document it yourself……………42 References……….45 Sources……………..45 Addresses……………48 More, more, more………………...................50 Links…………………………………………..50 Sharing……………………………………...51 Contact……………………………………51 3 500 bildwechsel Glasgow Introduction As of 2017, bildwechsel Glasgow doesn’t have a fixed address. Write them to ask your questions. Email: [email protected] If you are an artist or a student, a historian or simply interested in queer history, you will soon notice that finding a variety of queer archival bildwechsel’s main address is at: documents isn’t always easy. I started researching queer archives in bildwechsel Glasgow for my course and art practice. However, I ended up turning the Kirchenallee 25 focus of my project onto archival methodology and politics instead. There 20099 Hamburg Germany was just so much to be said about the radical acts of reclaiming queer histories and the methods used to document them. Telephone: +49 (0)40 246384 Email: [email protected] http://www.bildwechsel.org/info/en/ Being able to tell a story, and having the language to talk about yourself, http://durbahn.net/videoschloss/index.html can give you confidence and a strong sense of identity. Where you lack the words and the confidence to tell your story, you can feel as if you have National Museums Scotland - OurStory Scotland Archive wheelchair accessible lost your self. Telling your story may even be a matter of life and death. If you cannot name and narrate your identity, you may lose a sense of who Research Library, level 3 you are, what you are doing and why it is worth continuing. (…) Chambers Street Edinburgh, EH1 1JF Where voices are unheard, hidden or suppressed, the images and Tel: 0131 247 4137 representations of a community may be stereotyped and discriminatory, Email: [email protected] https://www.nms.ac.uk/ constructed about the community by those on the outside. LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people have experienced social exclusion Dorothy Kidd, Senior Curator and marginalisation, and their stories have been neglected or distorted. Tel: 0131 247 4076 Email: [email protected] Their lives and loves have been characterised as wrong: mistaken in medical or moral terms. Their choice has been to understand themselves, OurStory Scotland if at all, in alien terms (Valentine, 2008, p.2). Email: [email protected] https://www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk 4 4949 Addresses Mitchell Library - Glasgow Life Archive All the archival documents in this zine can be found at the Queering language following institutions: Mitchell Library - Glasgow Life Archive Queer archives are scarce in general. When you find documents, wheelchair accessible the way they are catalogued does not always represent the whole spectrum of terms queer people use to describe themselves. Level 5, The Mitchell Library North Street, While there is a diverse terminology for sexual identity, the [US] Glasgow G3 7DN Library of Congress distills it into variations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and homosexual. Meanwhile, we are queers and queens, and Telephone: 0141 287 2910 transgender, and dykes, and bull daggers, and butches, and lipstick Email: [email protected] lesbians. (…) ‘‘Queer’’ represents a wide range of sexual identities http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/ and expressions. It was a term of the working class and used by people of color from early on in the gay liberation movement (de la Glasgow Women’s Library – Zine, LGBTQ and Lesbian Archive tierra, 2008, p.98). wheelchair accessible Dated terms like ‘sodomy’ (see next page) are to be expected in Glasgow Women’s Library 23 Landressy Street historical documents, but updating the index would help making Glasgow, G40 1BP archives more welcoming to people researching the history of their own community. Telephone: 0141 550 2267 Email: [email protected] ‘Queer’ is an important word, because it is a slur reclaimed by its https://womenslibrary.org.uk/ targeted group. Institutions have the resources to adapt their language so that it reflects the way people name themselves. Not National Library of Scotland - Moving Image Archive doing so further alienates communities and reinforces systemic wheelchair accessible oppression. Institutions should support, uplift and amplify marginalised voices, especially those of queer, trans or non-binary Kelvin Hall people who also happen to be people of colour, sex workers, 1445 Argyle Street working class or unemployed, people with disabilities or mental Glasgow, G3 8AW illness, etc. Telephone: 0845 366 4600 ‘‘The language and discourse of liberation and transformation Email: [email protected] recognizes and honors the right of all people to name themselves.’’ https://www.nls.uk/collections/moving-image-archive/ (Abalos (1999) cited in de la tierra (2008, p. 97.) 4848 5 Page 22 Valentine, J. (2012). Turning Out to Make History: OurStory Scotland. History Scotland. [Online]. January/February 2012, p.30. [5 Dec. 2017]. Available from: https://www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk/research/pres/Turni ngOutToMakeHistory1.pdf Page 23 Valentine, J. (2012). Turning Out to Make History: OurStory Scotland. History Scotland. [Online]. January/February 2012, pp.30-31. [5 Dec. 2017]. Available from: https://www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk/research/pres/Turni ngOutToMakeHistory1.pdf OurStory Scotland. 2017. OurStory Scotland. [Online]. [5 Dec. 2017]. Available from: Having more index cards with more varied and accurate terms referring to https://www.ourstoryscotland.org.uk the same files could be a first step in the right direction, but it’s not an Page 24 From OurStory Scotland Archive at National Museums easy one. Scotland [21 Nov. 2017]: W.MS.2007.563.1 [They] may be terms that ‘‘represent shifting and overlapping sexual and Page 25 W.MS.2007.481.1 gender identities,’’ but in the library ‘‘books about these identities will be assigned static subject headings that collate sometimes widely divergent Page 26 W.MS.2007.493.1 representations of gendered selves.’’ (Drabinski, cited in Eichhorn, 2014, Page 27 W.MS.2007.452.1 p.141) Titanic. 1997. [Film]. James Cameron. dir. United States: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment. Page 28 W.MS.2007.443.1 Page 29 W.MS.2007.542.1 Page 30 W.MS.2007.562.1 Page 31 W.MS.2007.570.1 Page 32 W.MS.2007.435.3 Page 33 W.MS.2007.494.2 Page 34 W.MS.2007.439.1 Page 35 W.MS.2007.419.2 Page 36 W.MS.2007.509.1 Page 37 W.MS.2007.412.1 Page 38 W.MS.2007.497.2 6 4747 Another step that institutions can take to support marginalised voices is to Page 9 From the Glasgow Women’s Library Archive [20 offer archival space to groups that work on documenting their own narratives. This is what the Mitchell Library has done by allowing OurStory Nov. 2017]: Scotland to store their organisational records in their Glasgow Life ‘Archival Handling’ sheet collection. In the files (ref.TD1904), you can see the steps taken by OurStory Page 10 From the Zine Archive at Glasgow Women’s Library Scotland in order to create local queer archives. (more at p.22) [20 Nov. 2017]: Cunt & Paste, ref. GB 1534 ZN/C/13 Page 11 A Handy Guide to Asexuality, ref. GB 1534 ZN/A/14 Page 12 Dyke Dreams, ref. GB 1534 ZN/D/5/1 Page 13 Hens Tae Watch Oot Fur, ref. GB 1534 ZN/H/03/zines/H/3 Page 14 Bombshell, ref. GB 1534 ZN/B/06/zines/B/6/1 The Animals and the Ark and the Rainbow, ref. GB 1534 ZN/A/10/01 Page 15 Fabulous Babes, ref. GB 1534 ZN/F/01/zines/F/1/1 Page 16 From the Lesbian Archive at Glasgow Women’s Library [20 Nov.